Got my baby back from the bodyshop!!! UPDADED WITH PICS!!!!!

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 2nd, 2007, 1:47 am

What can i say, except that it looks amazing! I (beeing to pesimist that i am) did not expect it to turn out the way it did, as a matter of fact i was thinking of selling as soon as i get it back from the shop and searching for another mx . I am happy to report that car is not going anywhere! It looks awesome! The color is red the paint is dupont and its snowing out right now so I will try to take pictures this weekend and post. BTW i was driving my moms eagle vision for 2 weeks while the mx was getting fixed/painted and getting back into the mx after felt amazing the way you seat is positioned the high dash the seats the feel of a 5spd all felt very nice after drinving a boat lol. The only problem is that the door i brought the shop started falling apart when they tried to sandblast the rust (the bottom inside of the door was rusted, thanks reaper of souls) So i need to find another door in the near future and they will paint it for me, but i am not in a rush to do it as the outside of the door is still fine. I think i am going to concentrate on suspension next, after that its turbo...Thats the plan anyway...

Boris · Post by **Boris** » February 3rd, 2007, 2:19 am

congrats, can't wait to see pics. You've had some rough times with the mx, i'm glad it's finally comin together for you

Juans_93_MX3 · Post by **Juans_93_MX3** » February 3rd, 2007, 11:23 pm

My car is about to get done to. I have been working on it for about 4 months now. Its hard when its your 1st paint job.

I ended up Primering the whole car even though i didnt really have to. Only did it because it had a bunch of scratches

I am going to paint it black... keep it black

PATDIESEL · Post by **PATDIESEL** » February 4th, 2007, 1:22 am

My advice, move out of Canada (assumption). Everything metal rusts to hell there. Anywhere north of Tennesee, there is too much salt on the roads.

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 4th, 2007, 7:16 pm

BEFORE:
passenger side

driver side

AFTER:

I dont know why it looks orange like that cause i swear its red lol. i think its the sunligh in the picture causing it to look orangy. I took off the spoiler because it was cracked pretty bad so now i am sporting the hatch garnish.[/img]

jrors · Post by **jrors** » February 4th, 2007, 8:06 pm

She looks good!

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » February 4th, 2007, 8:10 pm

looks clean

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » February 4th, 2007, 9:25 pm

'bout time with the pics!

looking good

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 4th, 2007, 10:17 pm

Thanks guys, I am really happy with the quality of the work. So hard to keep her clean in the winter lol.

ElectricEnergy · Post by **ElectricEnergy** » February 5th, 2007, 12:01 am

Wow! I can't believe it came back from that so well. Very nice!

How did it get smashed up so bad along that entire side?

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 5th, 2007, 12:09 am

got dragged by a semi... bassicly i was cliped from behind which turned me around and made my side of the car perpindicular to the semi which pushed me like that for 100-200 feet till it stopped (snow)

Vanished · Post by **Vanished** » February 5th, 2007, 12:46 am

WOW thats an amazing comeback. The shop you took it to did a VERY good job. Kudos to you and the body shop. Glad to here your keepin it! How much did they quote the insurance company for the job? I think they should make a forum section called "before and after". Take shots of when you first had the car or if it was crashed, or just majorly changed, and what its like now.

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 5th, 2007, 12:53 am

Well the accident was my fault so i had to pay for the repairs, it worked out ok at the end cause i wanted to paint it anyway and the passenger side was damaged when i bought it. I always knew it needed bodywork and paint but with my accidednt it kinda got fixed all at once. My dad happens to know somebody who works at a a bodyshop and he did all the work on it after his regular shift there, so i had a deal with him and not the bodyshop. That saved some money for sure but it was still a lot for me to pay and I had to provide him with the parts (bought a parts car $1200) and $1700 for labour.

94blaze1.6 · Post by **94blaze1.6** » February 5th, 2007, 1:01 am

which reminds me I have some misc parts from the parts car if anybody needs anything. 94 RS seats, headlights, r. tailight, front bumber, hood...pm if interested.

import_fan7 · Post by **import_fan7** » February 12th, 2007, 10:08 pm

that looks really good after it bein all smashed in...my driverside fender looked like that for a lil bit when my friends neighbor decided to back into it o well its all fixed pretty like that now!!